Samsung Galaxy A21s review By GSMArena Official

Hi everyone, the Samsung Galaxy a21s, is an entry-level smartphone with all the basics you could want and a decent all-around camera for the price. There's a HD plus LCD screen a huge five thousand William hour battery four cameras, fingerprint scanner and even NFC and FM radio all starting at 170 euros. So what else does Samsung's entry level get you in 2020, I'm Ricky for GSM arena, and this is our review of the Samsung Galaxy a21s. Just because a phone is cheap doesn't mean it has to look like it. The galaxy a21s is built with a plastic frame and backside and Samsung knows how to make plastic. Look.

Nice. The bezels around the screen are decently thin and there's a small sized punch hole camera in the upper corner, all in all a sleek looking phone there's a headphone jack at the bottom of the phone. Next to the USB port and loudspeaker. The sim tray is on the left side, and it has room for two NATO sim cards and a micro SD card around back, there's the quad camera setup and the fingerprint scanner. Let's take a closer look at this screen.

It's a TFT LCD screen with 720p resolution and a tall 20x9 aspect ratio at 270 pixels per inch. It isn't the sharpest screen around, but that's well expected in this price range. We tested 491 nits of max brightness, which is about average, but we've seen much dimmer, there's a generously sized 5 000 William hour battery here, which resulted in exceptional battery life. We tested 119 hours of endurance overall, with almost 40 hours of talk time and between 17 and 18 hours of video and web browsing with the included 15 watt fast charger. You get a 26 charge in half an hour.

Charging is a bit slow, but the endurance numbers certainly make up for that. The loudspeaker scored average in our test and in our experience it sounds quiet and barely loud. The phone is powered by a Samsung, Enos, 850 chipsets and paired with three four or six gigabytes of ram and up to 64 gigabytes of storage. Its performance scores were not impressive. Despite being an outscore chip playing games isn't ideal on the a21s, but it is possible.

Everyday performance is okay, but it does begin to lag and stutter a bit as you load more apps and content. Honestly, we expect it better. Even for a budget phone, the phone comes loaded with Samsung's one UI 2.1, and we have to say that Samsung's been able to consistently match the look and feel of its UI across devices. The interface is straightforward, customizable and well organized, of course, being a budget phone, there's no edge panel or always on display, but the phone supports, android, 10 gestures and universal dark mode is the standard setting up a fingerprint is done with a couple of swipes, and it works quickly consistently and reliably. This quad camera setup is impressive for a budget range phone there are four main cameras with a primary 48 megapixel camera, an 8 megapixel ultra-wide 2, megapixel macro and 2 megapixel depth sensor.

The camera app is quite standard for Samsung, and the only thing we've noticed: that's missing is a proper night mode. Daylight shots from the main camera look good. Although there isn't much detail, everything else is in order. Low noise with nice sharpness and accurate colors dynamic range is quite good as well, thanks to auto HDR in the ultra-wide shots, there's still enough detail with great colors dynamic range isn't as good as on the main camera, but it's still about average. Honestly, we've seen much worse from even more expensive phones, so we're happy with this ultrawide camera.

So far, the 2 megapixel macro camera has a fixed focus at around 4 centimeters. As long as you manage to get the distance just right, shots are detailed enough with accurate colors contrast could be a little better, though the 2 megapixel depth camera helps with portrait, photos, and they're. Quite good. There's plenty of detail and great contrast. Subject: separation works very well for its class and the artificial blur looks nice as well.

Low-Lit photos shot with the main camera look great with enough detail and nice saturation as it gets darker, though, noise reduction gets more aggressive and details get smeared all in all. The pictures are still usable for social apps. Remember, there's no proper night mode for the galaxy a21s. As for the ultra-wide camera in low light, details are mostly gone, and it gets worse with less light, so low light photos with the ultra-wide aren't really usable the punch, hole. Selfie camera has a 13 megapixel sensor, which will result in either 13 megapixel wide shots or 8 megapixel crops, selfies look average and don't have much detail.

Colors look washed out, and it's missing some contrast. Portrait selfies are okay. Subject: separation isn't stellar, but to be honest, it could have been worse. The galaxy 821s shoots, 1080p video at 30 frames per second and video looks outstanding. There's a lot of detail and great sharpness.

Colors are accurate and dynamic range looks. Natural contrast is also very good. The ultra-wide camera's video is sharp with colors true to life, but dynamic range isn't as good on this camera. The Samsung Galaxy a21s is a well-equipped entry-level smartphone, but the fact is that there are so many other smartphones in this sub 200 euro price range. Interestingly enough, the Samsung Galaxy a20 from last year has an AMOLED screen and a faster processor for the same price, even though it doesn't have the macro or depth cameras from the new a21s.

It's a trade-off. We'd be willing to make so the galaxy a21s isn't a bad phone. It's just that there are better offerings for the same amount of cash. I mean even Samsung has a better phone for the same price. Still the galaxy a21s gets you great battery life, nice looking hardware and a decent all-around camera, but its sluggish performance has us leaning towards alternatives in this price range.

I'm Ricky with GSM marina, and thanks for watching take care. You.

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